[talltimtom]

This seems borderline scientific fraud. They are showing that participants get better at a test when they practice the test. They use this to make outlandish claims about the test-training app which is sold by a company previously fined for making fraudulent claims around their braintraining apps.

[Bartweiss]

Pretty much every brain-training routine that's ever showed promise has turned out to be a practice effect specific to the task. "Does it generalize?" is the question for regimens like this. After so many promising failures, I think it's inappropriate to claim even preliminary success without looking at that question. (Worse, in fact: they ran the Trail Making Test too, saw no significant change, and declared success because scores hadn't gone down.)

Unless this stands up to a far stronger test, I'm not just dismissing the result but considering it an embarrassment for Cambridge's Neuroscience Institute, Frontiers in Behavioural Neuroscience, and ABC. Turning the results so far into a news story promising to free people from stimulants is reckless at best and dishonest at worst.

[dublo7]

If you look at the study they don't actually test anyone with ADHD at all. Just talk about it.

They should have a population with confirmed ADHD taje Ritalin or not and then play the game. The headline had nothing to do with the drug or ADHD.

People who played more got better compared to playing bingo is all they could take claim.